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Mardi Louisell, a regular columnist for iPinion, recently published a piece of flash fiction, “Any Friend of My Friend,” in the Smokelong Quarterly, one of the oldest and most prominent online publishers of flash fiction. Smokelong liked the story so much they did a fun... View This Article →

Young people, and especially our children, can revive our capacity for wonder at the world and a sense of intimate connection to it. I felt closer to the landscape because I saw my daughter come alive to it with an intensity that no longer comes... View This Article →

On the second anniversary of my brother’s death. My younger brother died quite suddenly in March of 2013. He was my only sibling, the only relative left in my immediate family, both of our parents being gone. His daughter had asked my daughter to tell... View This Article →

“Perhaps the story of our love belongs to the 1960s, when everything seemed possible, a spirit we never lost.” I met him in graduate school during the early sixties, the kind of smart, studious young man I‘d always been drawn to but never managed to... View This Article →

I was sick again–fatigue, dizziness, wooly brain, stomach ache—a frequent experience over the last twenty-five years. I’d read a zillion articles and books about my symptoms and had long ago concluded that I suffered from Chronic Fatigue. About three years ago, I’d sought help from... View This Article →

While writing a blog about “retirement as an open door,” I decided this August to attend a screenwriters conference in Los Angeles and, despite my extreme reluctance to embarrass myself in public, to pitch my screenplay at the conference “Pitch Fest.” The pitch fest was... View This Article →

The question of who gets to be a story teller and of whose stories are read and acknowledged is crucial–not just for women, but for men and for the way civil society as a whole is constructed. The “She Writes” in my title alludes to... View This Article →

In doing research for my memoir, Tasting Home, a book organized by decades and by the cookbooks that shaped my life, I struggled to get an angle on my mother’s cooking. In some ways, it replicated what we think of as the cooking of the... View This Article →

Earlier today I read about a screenwriting conference to be held mid-August in Los Angeles. The conference will include the usual workshops, speakers, and panels along with a “pitch slam”–a chaotic, noise-filled event at which a hundred or so screenwriters line up to describe their... View This Article →